* Naruto attacks the mystery man in Nine Tails mode! Kakashi seems to know who this masked man is. It can't be, can it? The mask gets compromised in one of the attacks and we find out, who it is behind this mask. The title of next Naruto episode is “Who are you?”. Watch Naruto Shippuden 343 with us on TailedFox and check with us on our Naruto forum for discussions. Enjoy this Naruto episode!
Encouraged with Nine Tail's words, Naruto launches another attack. Nine Tail’s hand reaches out and hits hard but the masked man, much to Naruto’s surprise, walks away unscathed. Guy nudges Kakashi on to go help Naruto out with some sort of diversion, but Kakashi seems to be pondering on something.
Tobi, realising that Naruto is fighting alone, threw three Shuriken stars. Eight Tails jumped in and stopped two of them, but got at least one of its tails slashed off. The third Shuriken got stopped skilfully by Nine Tails. Naruto reminded the masked man that he is not alone. Kurama is always with him and Octopops with Eight Tails are ready as well. Then there is the Bushier Brow Sensei and Kakashi.
Kakashi and Guy went for it. Thinking aloud Kakashi realised he only have enough chakra for few more shots. Kakashi’s Kamui is timed with that of Tobi. It's time for this Kamui to work. The main thing, Bee recalls, is to take advantage of the sucking and spitting the masked man does. This is when he is materialised and vulnerable.
A slew of kunai were sent towards Eight Tails and when these hit their target, a chains attached to their end connect the Eight Tails to Tobi. These chains contained a curse mark which restrained the Tailed Beast’s power. Naruto asked Bee to shield him as he produced a Tailed Beast Bomb. At the same time Kakashi attacked with his Kamui. Tobi, learning from the past attack, decided not to allow Naruto to pass through him, but when the attack came, it was just Naruto’s clone.
Suddenly, Kakashi fell down on his face. Guy came right to him. Tobi gathered that his attack came before Kakashi had a chance to transport Naruto’s Rasengan. This wasted another one of Kakashi’s Kamui. Exhausted, Kakashi lay on the ground motionlessly. Smug Tobi thought he had it made. Then he noticed Naruto, just inches away from him and armed with Rasengan. In a nick of time, Tobi realised that Kakashi’s Kamui wasn’t actually aiming at Rasengan being thrown by Naruto’s clone, but at the clone itself. Naruto’s Rasengan hit the materialised mask straight on.
To find out just who this masked man really is, the scene rolls back to Chunin exam stage two, squad vs squad battles. As a reward for helping an older person, young Obito gets a lollypop. Guy kicks Obito in the fight knocking the lollypop out of Obito’s mouth. In the stage three of the exam in the hand to hand combat, Guy floors Obito again. Kakashi ends up winning this round and getting promoted to Jonin. Minato, their captain, gave Kakashi a custom-made kunai as a gift and Rin, the girl Obito was after, gave Kakashi a personalised med kit.
On one mission, Obito, Kakashi and Rin get attacked. Obito is quick to use his Fire Ball Jutsu, but he couldn’t save the girl from the kidnappers. Kakashi suggests to finish the mission without Rin and coming back for her later. Obito hit Kakashi in the face and said that in the ninja world the ones who break the rules are scum, but the ones who abandon their friends are worse than scum.
They parted ways then, but when Obito got attacked again by the same kidnappers, it was Kakashi, who saved him. Attacker used some sort of invisible jutsu and here is where Kakashi got his left eye cut. Obito using his sharingan ocular powers spotted the next attacker and this time Obito was ready with his kunai. Rin was saved, but the attack of rock boulders that came falling down from above got Obito pinched. It seemed like the end for Obito and in his last words, he admitted to Kakashi that he thought of him as a great jonin. Saying that he was the only one who didn’t give him present for making Jonin, Obito reached out with his only functioning arm and pulled out his Sharingan eye to give it to Kakashi.
Forward to current fighting of the masked man and you see the unmasked Obito Uchiha. When asked why he wouldn’t return to Konoha after surviving the boulder crush, Obito said, ‘because you let Rin die.”Obito followed by saying that it doesn’t really matter any longer, that he has no interest in the current world that is about to end. Naruto butted in and reminded Kakashi and Guy that it is this world that needs to be protected.
Obito attacked again and this time with Bomb Blast Dance. Kyubi countered it easily, but when the dust settled, Madara appeared next to Obito. When we were just getting hopeful about the developments, Madara showed up to side with unbeaten and apocalyptic Obito Uchiha. The title of the next Naruto episode is “Obito and Madara”. Watch with us Naruto Shippuden 344 on Thursday December 26th and pop in our Naruto forums for discussions.